The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-04-29

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Patrick j. 4 -an, deputy recorder
votes AZ ST. Lo.liS, has been 'nten ed
to two years ia the pen lie uiary for
falsely registering voters. t. T.
Leder erber, recently q cand dale or
congress from St. Louis, Was indicted
for pension frauds.
A wealthy C tizen of San Franc SEQ
named Wlllio has recovered a dangn-
ter stolen from him twelve wears ago.
Having searched nearly over the word
for her. he found her in II jchester,
New York, which place they left Sun
day night for California.
AT Springfield. H.. Thursday, the
remains of Abraham Lincoln were re.
moved from the spot where they were
concealed in 1878, after the attempt to
steal them, AND deposited by the side
OF Mrs. Lincoln III the vault in the
north hall of the monument.
The governor general of Canada, at
the opening of parliament, expressed
the belief that the fisherynegotiations
! will end in an arrangement honorable
and satisfactory to both nations, but
stated that provision had been made
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to protect inshore fisheries.
The attorney general of Louisiana,
III behalf of that state, has entered
suit against the Cotton-Seed Oil trust,
which owns every mill in the state,
asking that a.receiver be appointed to
take charge of its property and bust
ness, as it has never been incorpor-
ated.
"A hotel in the central portion of
Amsterdam, crowded with strangers.
witnessing the festivities connected
with the Kings birthday. took fire
during Thursday night and was en-
| tirely burned. -Four lives were lost.
and many persons sustained serious
injHries.
Eight avowed socialists are members
of committee of eleven selected Sun
day by the united labor party of Chi
resolution to forbid the sale of liquors
at picnics and the holding of meetings
in saloons was tabled, by vote of 81
to 81.
A rate war in the northwest is likely
to arise from the notice given by the
Burlington and Northern that it will
not renew its limited agreement to
abide by tariff rates. The necessities
OF this line as compared to those of
the st. Paul road may force cut on
through freight.
Papers have been received at the
Milwaukee pension agency ordering
the payment of Sl2,500 in cash and the
allowance Of So per month to Peter
Schumacher, formerly member Of
the 4th Wisconsin cavalry, for some
years past an inmate of the insane
asylum at Green Bay.
80 NJ D.yl
county, Georgia, who was indicted for
running distillery, secured "a trans
fer of his case to the Federal court on
writ of habeas corpus. The State
judge has called the attention of Gov
ernor Gordon to the matter, and will
claim jurisdiction of the offender.
Harvey Il. Clark, of Chillicothe,
Ohio, who had been attending a meet
ing Of Knights Templars at Cincin-
natl, was killed by train while walk
ing on the track near Painville.
Charles Nash and Michael Butler, of
Arcanum, Ohio, were fatally injured
while driving across the track at
Eaton.
A farmer near Fond du Lac, Wis
consin, recently signed q contract to
take young Englishman and teach
him the art of American farming in
three years, giving him nothing but
his board. His signature was trans
bank, and he has been asked to call
and settle.
There are many signs, says q Wash
ington dispatch, of reaction against
further suspensions of the long and
short haul provision by the Interstate
Commerce Commission. The members
claim this is preconcerted assault on
that clause, the Pacific coast interests
being loud in their clamor for tenn
pOrary suspension.
In the Dominion parliament on Sat-
urday Mf. Weldon said the Canadians
relied not upon their military strength
for a settlement of the fishery dispute,
but upon the good Judgment of the
people of the United States. Mr..
Blake, leader of the opposition, Gems
ured the Government for keeping the
country in the dark as to negotiations
in progress.
Mr.. Parnell, from his seat In the
House of Commons, intends to deny
that he wrote the letter charged to him
in relation to the Phoenix park muir
ders, which has created intense excite
ment throughout Great Britain. 1t is
stated that the editor of the Times
will be summoned to the bar of the
House to explain the authorship of the
letter. Mr.. Parnell has not yet de-
cided to prosecute the paper.
In their weekly trade review r.. G.
Dun u Co. say that considering the
embarrassment from uncertainty as to
freights, accounts of trade are sur
prisingly satisfactory, and it is the
almost universal testimony that retail
trade is unusually large, while there is
no embarrassment in collections. The
business failures for the week number
for the United States 146, for Canada
%, total of 165 against 223 last week
and 1872 the corresponding week of last
year. Business. casualties are on the
decline in every section of the
country.
Alexander Mitchell. president of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rail-
way, died on Tuesday in a New York
hotel, from pneumonia. He was born
in Scotland in 1917, and was invited to
Milwaukee in 1880 as secretary of the
Wisconsin Fire and Marine Insurance
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